CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38001
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
Savino says:
"We are writing to report that this recent patch
(141d34391abbb315d68556b7c67ad97885407547) [1]
can be bypassed, and a UAF can still occur when HFSC is utilized with
NETEM.
The patch only checks the cl->cl_nactive field to determine whether
it is the first insertion or not [2], but this field is only
incremented by init_vf [3].
By using HFSC_RSC (which uses init_ed) [4], it is possible to bypass the
check and insert the class twice in the eltree.
Under normal conditions, this would lead to an infinite loop in
hfsc_dequeue for the reasons we already explained in this report [5].
However, if TBF is added as root qdisc and it is configured with a
very low rate,
it can be utilized to prevent packets from being dequeued.
This behavior can be exploited to perform subsequent insertions in the
HFSC eltree and cause a UAF."
To fix both the UAF and the infinite loop, with netem as an hfsc child,
check explicitly in hfsc_enqueue whether the class is already in the eltree
whenever the HFSC_RSC flag is set.
[1] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=141d34391abbb315d68556b7c67ad97885407547
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15-rc5/source/net/sched/sch_hfsc.c#L1572
[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15-rc5/source/net/sched/sch_hfsc.c#L677
[4] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.15-rc5/source/net/sched/sch_hfsc.c#L1574
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/8DuRWwfqjoRDLDmBMlIfbrsZg9Gx50DHJc1ilxsEBNe2D6NMoigR_eIRIG0LOjMc3r10nUUZtArXx4oZBIdUfZQrwjcQhdinnMis_0G7VEk=@willsroot.io/T/#u
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0.1 < 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.185)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.32)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.15 < 6.15.1)
• linux linux kernel 5.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
• debian debian linux 12.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/295f7c579b07b5b7cf2dffe485f71cc2f27647cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c928b3a0b04a431ffcd6c8b7d88a267124a3a28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f2190ce4ca972051cac6a8d7937448f8cb9673c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39ed887b1dd2d6b720f87e86692ac3006cc111c8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e38eaaabfb7fffbb371a51150203e19eee5d70e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6672e6c00810056acaac019fe26cdc26fee8a66c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0ec22fa20b252edbe070a9de8501eef63c17ef5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac9fe7dd8e730a103ae4481147395cc73492d786 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5bee633cc276410337d54b99f77fbc1ad8801e5 Patch
- https://syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-family-drama/ Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- https://syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-family-drama/ Third Party Advisory